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Re: Shut down or leave on?



On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:18:54 -0400
"Mike" <mikewk147@oh.rr.com> wrote:

> The amount
> electricity usage from present day devices is minimal 

I know your sentence continues along a different line, but let me just interject here that computers have never consumed as much energy as they do today. True, energy consumption per CPU instruction has gone down dramatically, but that is far outcompensated by the increase in total computing power.

> I say, leave it on.

Turn it off. It won't do harm.

--D.



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